Galarthor wrote: »

What Gap? Skill plays a miniscule role in your performance these days. The biggest factor by far is the gear - well at least in PvP. And PvE is nothing but routine piece of work - know your rotation and practice it to perfection. Want to be as good as those top players then spent some hours on the target dummy like they did when they started. No real skill required.

And how can you stuggle in normal mode? Many of normal mode dungeons don't even require a real tank and/or healer. Most people I see fail don't pay attention to mechanics and think by just pressing 2 buttons they should win. But that is not a skill or experience issue. That's a no-***-given issue. Red AoE circle spawning underneath me ... who cares ...

And no I am not an elitist player. I spend my days decorating my house and practicing playing sorcerer with a friend. I haven't run any of the new dungeons in vet mode. And normal mode only once each. And without any preperation those dungeons were still easy going.

Sorry friendo but this is entirely incorrect. It's just not the truth, at all. Believe me from someone who regularly participates in the content that less than 1% of the population has completed. The gap is still huge and personal gaming skill is a HUGE part of a player's performance these days.

You admitted to doing a norm dungeon once, and rarely. That's fine, and you're right basically zero skill is needed for some or most on norm. Though I've been blocked from completing dungeons lately healing some norm dungeons by players doing 2k dps each lol, and I have no clue how it is possible to do that low of damage haha.

But the gap is gigantic between the middle and the top, and requires extreeeeeeme skill to do the top content. And honestly gear starts to be important but a very skilled player near the top can do most other content with garbage gear on.

Also it is worth mentioning, in your own example, the theoretical dps is making no effort to get out of the red and is mashing two buttons. This is made possible because your healer is working their butt off to keep these lazy players alive, and of course the player would have no consciousness or ability to realize that if they're that lazy lol. How is that fair to your healers?

There's even a gap within the top %1 lol. I've gotten a good chunk of vet HM trials, all vets but vCR just because I never bothered progressing on it till now, and gotten all vet and most vet HM dungeons including regularly healing no death runs. L Have been on the Leaderboards a dozen times, which is a dozen more than almost the entire eso population but a joke compared to the ones on there every week. But I'll never have Godslayer or vCR+3 for example. This is the reality of upper tier gaming and I know my place and am fine with that.

It's funny how the devs release vet content that requires more damage and sustain, but then complain about "power creep" while nerfing damage and sustain as if they don't want people to actually beat the content.

the list goes on, sorcerer is with out a doubt the most neutered class in game, and theyve continue to radically change the game every patch. i have no reason to stick around.

Everytime a big Chapter or DLC drops, it seems I have to re-gear and re-skill my characters again due to nerfs and changes. It really gets old after some time.

I'm a middle tier player. I've lost 20% to 25% of my dps. It took a lot of work to get where I was before they ripped that 25% away with these Godamned nerfs. I don't know if I have to in me to get back to where I was. It's depressing and demoralizing. I am not a freaking robot that can parse with precise microsecond timing.